The Press., 1887-04-28
fFor The Press] DRIVING THROUGH CONNEC- TICUT GEOGRAPHY.
BY THR DRIVER.

BY THE DRIVER.
 When your right ear gets to burnin' you think that folks are praisin' you sky high, don't you? Well, I should think you'd be skairt.
 You know the Bible says, "Woe unto you when all men shall speak we'll of you. But perhaps you ain't troubled that way very often.
 Then, another thing, don't get too blue when your left ear gets to goin'. Sup posin' folks do get to blowin' you into smithereens, ot trying to2 What of iii? What should you care? You know then that the midnight part of fortunes wheel is up. You knswit can't get much dark CT. And ain't ii comfort to know that the noon part is started on the home stretch, and is comin' nearer and nearer, and growth brighter and brighter.
 Now, if was any like you, and erred what folks said about me, my ears wou!d be burnin' and tinglin' good share of tue time, I'd dare presume to say.
 'tCircumstances alter cases, "Circum- stances make men" t'Men make circun 7 starc s, ,"-that's the kind of lingo they get of about me. 1-rl sy.
 Course don't care thing about 1t, but like my last name best-it ain't got half so many letters in it, and ain't 80 hard to spell.
 New what dye think about them med dlesOme critters that Mother Goose tells | about, that pretend all the time to b.. sssweepin' the cobwebs out of the sky !? They've got to skedaddle when it gets | light enough sJ'st folks can see what they're about They''desire to be investi. gated" when its SD dark you can t see your hand before your .faGe; but dun't they scurry of, though, in somebody else's pet ticoats, Jeff Davis fashion, when the sun gets to marching through Georgia !" That reminds me, marching through Georgia ain't driving through Connecti- cut, is it? t.t I might have drove olear acrost the state before now, dare presume to say, if I hadn't got switched Off into the Land of Nod the other night. +.
 We'll, we'd been talking about it all the fall. Soon as school was done we was go- ing to start. But one day Mabel went and stuck her finger in her eye, and then took cold in it, and it alI,swelled up-MA- bel'seye did. ..t
 ! We was calculatin' to go the next Tues. day after school let out but the Great Hearts, they thought it wouldn't be prn. dent to take cut such an eye as Mabel'G was, nor any such 0 thing
 So, as was about to say, we waited till Wednesday, the 18th ultA ult., ult., ult., ult., which is November, ain't it, where left off.
 The teacher, she didn't hardly know what to do about goin'.1 She hadn'i had time to brink mp much, and beside there was another cousin with black eyes %hnk1 1okk Il. Al I II seat ride stiddier than she could. Aaron's eyes was blue, and Mabei's too. No, come to think, April was when Mabel first opened her eyes. and they seemed to kinder ketch the color of tht mornin'-a kind of cross between y-blus ! and the dark little clouds that send WI the tiny spafklin' drops with the rainbow shinin through them So.
 And that's one reason why Aaron don look jest exactly like her. He was borr in July.
 Hayin' time, that is. Then, yon know the sky is jest like big blue silk umber ell, and the sun shines so bright that yor can't stop for birth days and such thing till two or three weeks afterwards
 But 1sa was born in the dark eyed montl of October; and ain't it queer about blacI eyes? Your hair may get once in whil a grey streak in it, but black eyes don ever. Hers aln't. They are jest as nio I and black and sparAy as ever. But thel she's young yet s'F## {f#f a l A pretty picture they made as they rod up to Cousin Jennie's house. Mabel black-eyed brother sat by her side, al dressed up in his new plum colored sui and his best hat. Jennie thought he'd re pented, at the last moment, and had prob ably made bargain with his Uncle San to keep watchful blue eye on them steer while he was gone. But he didn't go. H went into last day of school instead where there was a perfect peach blossou of teacher, and few peach buds of girls
 He's as comical chap, that big boy is He had abig black Newfoundland dog Is'Old Mai4'-that he used to tackle ul with 8 calf. He used to ''haw gee" then taround together like 8 pair of trainet steers, and take the girls to ride, till tn heifer grew so tall that Old Maie couldn' manage his end of the yoke first. rate If they want the comiclest lookin' pair! 1 7 Well, they got started of, at last, abou nine o'clock. Jennie she knew they wa'ni no great of room to spare, so she didn't talk, no sachel, but one little bundle and | haRd4bag. &> >s a
 But, by Gimini If she didn't mak, herself into an animated carpet bag, thel we had all our laugh for nothin' only sh. packed the duds on the outside instead O on the in-dress over dress wrap ovel wrap-waterproof over all They took along her mothers whitt fscloud" into the bargain. No go, but they must. Q; theSe mothers, with theil far seeing eyesi If you ever have one, al ways take along just what she tells you to. Yon'lt need it. know that much /!
 didn't tell you about Jennie eyes You all know what teachers eyes are like always playin':''I spy" with you SC fast that you can't stop to see what colol they be. They want jest perfect match for Mis- Great Hearts, to be sure, but we didn't go in for lookss We was in for a good time, and we was bound to- have it, even if we didn't have it, and whether we had it or not. And, for my part, couldn't see but what the nigh side of the bngpy rode as smooth and even as the off side did. Mabel and her pa was on the of side).
 We'll, it's took me 8 good while to get started, ain't if I'm one of that kind ; but when once get started, of go.
 So of we went down past the school L Al